fylham

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by fylham 2mo ago
For those who aren’t aware, AOE2 is thriving today with a huge player base, fan base, ongoing development and large international tournaments (recent Red Bull Wololo tournament in London, for example). I play this game regularly with friend
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by fylham 2mo ago
Bowline, truckee’s hitch (the better alternative to a truckers hitch), prussick come to mind
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by fylham 2y ago
How private is this?
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by fylham 2y ago
Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them, generally.
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by fylham 2y ago
Sure, it is vital, but he claims that lack of vitamin D underlies nearly all diseases of modernity, which isn’t well-established. Meanwhile he was making money selling vitamin D and not disclosing it, which makes his motivation seem suspect
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by fylham 2y ago
The author of this paper, Michael Holick, was a professor of mine and is highly controversial due to his industry conflicts of interest that he didn't disclose ( https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business
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by fylham 2y ago
Has there been any sort of validation that it helps? A comparison to human-based psychotherapy?
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by fylham 2y ago
Cool result! But does it replicate?
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by fylham 2y ago
They didn’t address the possibility that some of those views on X come from bots. It depends on your goals, but I’d much rather have a post read closely by fewer humans who are really engaging with it, versus lots of fleeting engagement inc
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by fylham 2y ago
I just learned about undermind.ai which could be useful for this task!
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by fylham 2y ago
Click bait-y title, for a study about mice. I’m fundamentally skeptical about both click bait-y titles and studies about mice (and the inferences made about humans).
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by fylham 2y ago
Huh! I went to Boston University school of Medicine, and somehow didn’t realize that Isaac Asimov used to teach there – cool!
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by fylham 2y ago
Worked for me.
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by fylham 2y ago
I don’t understand what’s going on here.
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by fylham 2y ago
Two paths to the relaxed lifestyle: 1) only work about as much as needed and keep a low-key, relaxed lifestyle; 2) work crazy hard for 15-20 years and then if everything works out perfectly, slow down and keep a low-key, relaxed lifestyle.
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by fylham 2y ago
I agree with the above comment, you seem to be idealizing these mysterious others on the internet and assuming all are paragons of productivity. Meanwhile, this site is largely a locus of procrastination for me, as it is for many, many othe
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by fylham 2y ago
You might be interested in this well-written paper on this subject: https://academic.oup.com/ijnp/article/24/8/615/6275567?login...
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by fylham 2y ago
The hard problem of consciousness wonders why we seem to have consciousness when we could instead be input/output automata. You could imagine such a ‘zombie’ with our same social, emotional, and intellectual behavior (even pretending t
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by fylham 3y ago
I think it’s worth putting the scary-sounding 300% into context: the CDC says prevalence is 9/100,000. Even tripled, it is a very unlikely outcome for a given man. Which means I’m probably not going to give up woodworking over this (ho
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by fylham 3y ago
I’ve felt similarly for many years, but remain trapped using Spotify due to a lack of decent alternatives. Tried Tidal, but it wasn’t really any better. Would love to hear what leavers migrate to.
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by fylham 3y ago
I would even add “Based on studies in mice, D1 receptors might make for better targets than D2 receptors”
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by fylham 3y ago
Well given how complex the brain is, and how young neuroscience is, it’s no surprise that we haven’t unlocked deep knowledge about why psychopharmacological agents work. But granted the above, it isn’t prudent to wait decades for the brain